Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The guy who runs our regular game was gone this
week and we decided to run our usual SW one-shot. I usually run a Rippers, or
my Blues fantasy game but this time I ran a roll and run Blaxploitation Game
and it went pretty well. I borrowed heavily d20 modern, Solid d20
blaxploitation, Deadlands, Rippers and my limited video library. Most of the
guys had only Black Dynamite and Boondocks to reference but once I put on my
Funk playlist (yeah I was prepared).

The posse consisted of:

Aloysius "Sweet Leaf" Walker- A Hustler that can get you anything you need a lot
of things you dont. Works a lot with Montenegro

William White- Was an ex high school teacher on the run who was a
street chemist for a gangster named Phoenix, things got a little too hot for him
and he had to fake his death. He was the victim of an attempted mugging when he
arrived in the city but was saved by Montenegro Jones.

Abraham "Ruckus" Jackson- It had been rumored that the assassin Shiroi Akuma
killed his master, Sheba and took her belt of power. He has been studying at
the Sugarfist Dojo for years. After figuring out how to reach the next level
which is called the Heat he wanted to exact revenge, but crime and corruption
of the city has destroyed so many lives so so he must protect others before his
quest can start.

Montenegro Jones- Pimp Extraordinaire, that's all he gave me. If the
Rock and The Wicked Witch of the West had a baby Jones would be it. The player of Montenegro always
plays wizards and loves the huckster's "deal with the devil" rules.
So I made him a grandson of his Blues game and a descendant of our Fanasty game
mage, Diaboli Villano .

A mutual friend the the posse names Jelly Roll
asked for a meeting to help him with something. When the got there they found
out the some street junkie knock over a convenience store. When word got out
that they knocked over a store owned by gangster Tito Samucci, the punks decide
to give it to Jelly to make things right. Jelly called Tito to try an set up a
meet.

Monte recognized the name Samucci and knew
they were supposedly heavy into the dark arts. Sweet Leaf looked into the sack
and found about a thousand dollars and a smaller sack containing a number of
glowing gems. The group figure these had some occult significances and would be
dangerous in the hands of Tito. After kicking around ideas of what to do some
realized that Jelly told Samucci where his money was....Here. Just then the
lights went out and then front windows exploded.

Six humanoids ran in looking for the stuff that
was taken. Ruckus jumped into the fight, Sweet Leaf cowered in a corner and
Monte cast his rhymes. As part
of his Arcane Background the caster has to say a rhyme. yea there was a lot of
Roadblock from G I Joe and Bullhorn from Black Dynamite at the table but some
were pretty good.

During the fight, one of Monte's spell didn't
go off right and he collapsed. William Macgyvered a light source while everyone
was fighting. I secretly used
the rippertech rules for his drugs and the mad scientist rules for his
inventions. So William is slowly going crazy. William tried to save him, he
picked up a chair and caved in the hood's head.

They took care of the hoods. Monte felt that
they were being watched and it made him feel...uncomfortable. After planning
there next move the decided to find a hiding place.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

This is just a random scattering of my thoughts while they are still rolling around in my head.

47 Ronin was a object lesson. It was told to show that things like loyalty, you promise and honor are sometimes more important that your life. Yes, the writers took liberty with the story and maybe it was the equivalent of the Avengers movie (Thurman, not Downey). The cinematography, the costume design, and even the fight scenes were good. The ronin followed the way of
the bushido. This was way of life. One of the key words is Honor. I think you ask the common reasonable
intelligent Westerner about what Honor is and Ill bet they will give a cloudy amorphous
answer. I thought it was a good attempt
to tell a popular story from Japanese Mythology. How many of us would take a task knowing that even if you win or complete it, you will die.